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We reported last month that the $100 laptop was going to be a reality, but now Taiwanese company Quanta has made a deal to manufacture these One Laptop Per Child (OLPC) computers, designed by MIT Media Labs. Quanta, which also manufactures systems for companies such as HP, Apple, Dell, Gateway, Sony, IBM, Sharp and Fujitsu,…
You won’t see the HTC Muse until the end of 2006, but in the meantime, HTC has another smartphone for you. The 2125 runs Windows Mobile 5.0 Smartphone Edition. It’s based on the HTC Faraday design and uses a TI OMAP 850 processor at 200MHz. Also included is 64MB of internal RAM and 64MB of…
This one is for those ladies with iPods. We know you shove enough crap in your purse already, so why bother cramming a charger in there when you know it still won’t fit? The solution is the Power Purse. This design concept is a purse with individual solar panels on the outside and a USB…
Thanks, everyone, for submitting your suggestions for the best laptops of 2005. It appears that people really love their small, ultra-portables and tablets. Check out the final nominees, and submit your vote, after the jump. Gawker Media polls require Javascript; if you’re viewing this in an RSS reader, click through to view in your Javascript-enabled…
Those e-ticketing kiosks at the airport changed my life—never waiting in line to check-in for a flight again. So, it only makes sense that the same idea is now being applied to hotels. The Hyatt Regency Denver at Colorado Convention Center, opening next week, will let guests swipe a credit card into a kiosk and…
Words’ Worth By Brendan I. Koerner There’s a fantastic scene in the criminally underrated John Carpenter flick They Live, in which the character played by “Rowdy” Roddy Piper first dons the Ray-Bans that enable him to see Earth’s alien invaders. The aliens looks just like you and me sans sunglasses, but like horrible freaks when…
I’m not entirely sure how Gizmodo waded into this Coke vs. Pepsi thing—isn’t Nokia vs. Motorola and Apple vs. Everything Else enough? But Gizmodo loves coffee, and after writing about Coke Blak yesterday, reader Yves sent us this update on the cola-coffee wars: https://gizmodo.com/coke-blak-142753 Coke is actually one step behind Pepsi which just market-tested Pepsi…
It’s the Xbox 720 controller! It’s here! It’s really here! Fooled you. *dodges rocks* This is “tagtype,” an ongoing experiment in helping Japanese people input their language into a computer in an easier manner than the conventional method, which is often simply a converted QWERTY keyboard. Inventors-extraordinaire Leading Edge Design started building this as a…
Chinese and Taiwanese portable safety clocks have so far dominated the market with models that have all kind of functions you do (or do not) need when a big earthquake strikes again. Seiko pared down the features to just those it considered necessary, and came out with its Disaster Clock KR866N. The idea is not…
Yeah, yeah, yeah, you know the drill. We want to know what your favorite gadget was in 2005. Send your submissions to [email protected].
Because we rarely get love from our helper monkey, we depend on love from you all out there in the Interwebs. Please mosey on over to The WeblogAwards and vote for little old us. There are a few heavy hitters up there—I hear Slashdot runs LINUX!—but we are so nice and cuddly and we just…
Humble Best Buy insider Derek sent this bit of info on the December 18th Xbox 360 mania at Best Buy: As a Best Buy employee, I’ve been informed that we will in fact *have* to have the Xbox 360’s opening morning of the 18th because they will be running in the Sunday ad that comes…
Japan Trust Technology announced an external 6000mAh lithium-ion battery pack to make sure your iPod can keep going and going. It gives you power for about 50 hours of extra playing time. It connects via the standard iPod port and fits the iPod 4G, the U2, color, Photo, mini and nano. It weighs just over…
This being the holidays and all, we thought it would be nice to offer a few products that no one in their right mind would buy. Note: we said “right mind.” This does not apply to the leaders of global terrorist organizations like SMERSH or MAD. If your name is Dr. Claw, then you should…
HAI has long been known for its home automation and security products. Its latest and greatest offering is the OmniTouch with Video, an LCD touchscreen that can also access up to six digital video feeds from security cameras. The package is plug-and-playable with existing OmniTouch gear, but does require a power supply and HAI video…
This 1,024,000 millicandela LED lamp was put together for use on a bicycle. Only cost $100 for the parts. Figuring out the power source was probably the hardest part. I’m thinking it’s a good start for building a home projector—not that I’ve got tons of 16mm movies lying around. What would you make? How to…
When your iPod gets tired of playing Bon Jovi over and over again, it’s going to want a rest. Why not let it rest in style in an iPod Lounge Chair? This colorful accessory comes in colors like pink, blue, and black, and has cute little bendy arms to hold your iPod in place. But…
Want to buck the trend this holiday season and carry around a Creative Vision:M PMP instead of a video iPod? Here’s your chance. Amazon.com is offering the 30GB portable multimedia player at $330 for pre-order, bundled with an AC adapter. Not sure why Creative would reach for a higher price point than the video iPod,…
This one is for all the guys out there who may be down on their luck. Perhaps the mohel at your bris just wasn’t having a good day and you lost a little more foreskin than you’d like. So get some Senslip. Senslip is being marketed as the first publicly-available retractable foreskin for circumcised men.…
Sure, you can throw down some bucks on the Magenta RAZR for yer old lady, but for a few bucks less, you can make a statement with one of Mobile Chaos’s M-Couture cellphone cases. Products include the Sparkle Packs with silver or pink studs, Zoo Packs with faux fur animal prints, aptly-named Studded Packs with…